Theodore Deck A Large 50cm Earthenware Dish Decorated In The Iznik Style

a large ceramic dish decorated in the Iznik style. a large bouquet of flowers in multiple colors, red, white, pale green, turquoise, on an ultramarine blue background. On the rim a succession of small flowers and quatrefoils. on the reverse side signature in the center TH DECK, and some tulips on the back of the rim. Good condition. Diameter 50cm. Theodore Deck (1823-1891) is a French ceramist born in Guebwiller in Alsace. He even won a Silver Medal at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris. At the end of his career, he became director of the Sèvres national factory. In the field at that time, Théodore Deck was among... Inspired to the point of pastiche by Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese ceramics or majolica, he developed characters, birds, flowers, ornaments of all kinds under a turquoise, green, yellow or manganese glaze. But it is above all this characteristic blue that the public remembers: a bright turquoise shade soon known as “Deck Blue” or “Dec Blue”